Used worldwide by ExxonMobil Chemical and its licensees, the company's high-pressure tubular process has been in operation since 1968 and has a long history of improvements and capacity expansion. The company also licenses autoclave technology for producing LDPE.

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ExxonMobil Chemical has agreed to license its
tubular process technology to Sasol North America for a new low
density polyethylene (LDPE) plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana,
the companies said on Thursday.

The new 420,000 tpy plant is expected to be completed in late
2016.

Sasol Polymers, a division of Sasol Chemical Industries,
also licensed the ExxonMobil Chemical tubular process for its
LDPE plant in Sasolburg, South Africa, that opened in
2005.

Used worldwide by ExxonMobil Chemical and its licensees, the
company's high-pressure tubular process has been in operation
since 1968 and has a long history of improvements and capacity
expansion. The company also licenses
autoclave technology for producing LDPE.

"The performance of our LDPE plant in Sasolburg and the
experience of working with ExxonMobil Chemical before, during
and after that facility came online helped convince us that the
ExxonMobil Chemical tubular process was also the best choice
for our Lake Charles plant," said Mike Biesheuvel, managing
director for Sasol Polymers International Investments.

"The demonstrated performance of other ExxonMobil Chemical LDPE
process licensees in [large] plants was another
important factor in our selection," he added.

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